Computer History

Bits of computer hardware I've owned over the years.

This page is mostly for my own benefit, so I can recall the series of computers I've had over the years, and look back to how little memory or how slow the machines were back then. I've forgotten various specs over time, especially on the systems in the late 1990s and 2000s that I didn't have in front of me when I updated the list.

The approximate dates listed are when I started using these machines. In many cases the older machines were either still in use as primary machines (say, I only upgraded my Mac or my Windows machine, so I still used the other), were kept for redundancy, or are kept for nostalgia. All the old Macs went on eBay, while the PCs were scrapped, sold, or given away.

I still have a functional Amiga 500 with monitor, Commodore 64C with monitor and floppy drive, and TI-99/4A with speech synthesizer, plus the current PCs and Macs that I use on a daily basis.

Other AmigasAround this time I also got a number of other Amigas for cheap or free, including another Amiga 2000, an Amiga 3000, an Amiga 4000, and two more Amiga 500s. A few years later I even found an Amiga 1000 and the original Kickstart disks at a computer recycling event. My main machines were the two Amiga 2000s, one with 60840 card and a Picasso II, and the other with a 68060 and a Video Toaster/Flyer pair.

The ring table was built for a specific room in my old place in California, and another room was built around it in Vermont. Eventually this had to be given up due to lack of space when I eventually moved.

Mac mini and the OWC Thunderbay IV quad drive enclosure with larger drives that replaced the four older enclosures.

2017

MSI GS70 2OD 17" Gaming Laptop (2013 model) (as described above)Curved 55" Samsung UHD TV running at 3840 x 2160 at 30 Hz. The TV is capable of 60 Hz at that resolution, but the NVidia GTX 765M has to compromise visual fidelity to run at that refresh rate.